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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 May 2025)

James Lawless: ...research. The agency will be working with stakeholders to continue to engage, encourage, and support our excellent university researchers, and a strong research talent pipeline for Ireland. Under Budget 2025, additional funding was announced for Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, with its total budget funding research in the Irish Third Level system now standing at...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Heritage Projects (7 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...who take the lead role in individual projects. Longford County Council is the lead partner for the Historic Granard Motte Project. This project has been awarded Approval in Principle of c. €2.87 million in RRDF funding. In developing its plans, the Council has confirmed it is seeking to develop a major tourism and amenity attraction at the site of Granard Motte, a National Monument...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2025)

Jerry Buttimer: ...with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, to identify ways to improve access to care. On 12 February this year, the Minister for Health published the waiting list action plan for 2025, representing the Government’s commitment to reducing waiting times for patients and improving access to hospital care. In keeping with this commitment, significant funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (1 May 2025)

Neale Richmond: Two years of conflict in Sudan have resulted in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Over 15 million people have been forced to flee their homes and over 24 million people are in acute food insecurity, with some facing famine. Working with like-minded European Union member states, Ireland has supported strong EU messaging on Sudan, emphasising the need for a ceasefire, humanitarian access,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Jerry Buttimer: ...approval of funding for new Local Link bus services, as with all plans any additional funding for Local Link services is subject to the annual Budgetary and Estimates process. Under Budget 2025, the Department of Transport secured a funding package of c. €658.442 million for Public Service Obligation (PSO) and TFI Local Link services (an increase from €613.813 million in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 May 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year, over 172,500 children, are transported daily in approximately 7,900 vehicles across 10,300 routes daily to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country. These daily trips cover over 100 million kilometres. This figure includes...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Cathal Crowe: ...country - is the definition of what constitutes a farmer has changed. In County Clare and perhaps other counties, the majority of a household's income must come from farming. In County Clare, 85% of farm families are suckler farm families. Each year, the cows calve, the calves are sold after nine months when they are weaned and the cycle continues. That is how it has gone for...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: ...story, particularly in onshore wind, but because of a lot of controversy around locations in certain aspects that narrative does not often get told. We get a greater share of our electricity, 35% on average, from onshore wind farms than anywhere else in Europe. We are world leaders in integrating renewables onto our grid which can now take up to 75% of total electricity demand from wind...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Helen McEntee: ...accelerated delivery of special class places in mainstream schools and special school places with the number of special classes having doubled over the last five years, and 16 new special schools being established; — Budget 2025 provided for up to 2,700 additional special education placements to include, 400 new special classes in mainstream schools and 300 additional special...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (30 Apr 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...victim consideration is incorporated into pre-sanction assessment as well as supervision. At its core, restorative justice aims to enable all those affected by an offence to participate. In Budget 2025, the Probation Service received an additional €4 million, bringing the total budget to over €60m to cover Probation staffing and operational costs, to expand crime diversion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Apr 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...However, this care pathway is currently not fully implemented. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have confirmed that €3m was ring-fenced in the Budget 2025 for targeted services for children under a number of projects. As part of this €3m funding, €125,000 in core-funding has been made available to Debra Ireland, a charity...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Pádraig Rice: ...[in fear] like that when there is a treatment for it. She also referred to a meeting with a consultant who told her there was no timeframe for the surgery and "it could be two weeks or it could be 5 years." There are serious issues going back - that was the 2017 report from the Ombudsman for Children. In that report, the ombudsman said the previous spinal surgery waiting list targets...

Seanad: Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2025)

John Cummins: ...pleasure to be back in the Seanad. I welcome the opportunity to discuss and seek approval for the final draft revised national planning framework, which was approved by Government on 8 April 2025. The finalisation of the approval process for the revised framework plays a key role in delivering on our broader objectives across Government. It will allow the significant policy changes...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (29 Apr 2025)

Neale Richmond: Two years of conflict have resulted in a catastrophic conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Over 15 million people have been forced to flee their homes and over 24 million people are in acute food insecurity, with some facing famine. The London conference on Sudan on 15 April on the second anniversary of the conflict was co-hosted by the UK, the EU, Germany and France, with the aim...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (29 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 58, 3 and 5 of 9 April 2025, if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance regarding Irelands €9.4 million investments via the ISIF in eight companies, given the outline he provided of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (29 Apr 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand this Question refers to Strand 2 of the Community Climate Action Programme which has €5 million allocated to an open call for Education, Capacity Building and Learning by Doing Projects. The programme, consisting of 19 projects, was launched in 2022 with several projects now nearing completion. This programme, which is administered by Pobal, facilitates organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Climate Action Plan (29 Apr 2025)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Oil Tax provide that biofuels, such as HVO, are relieved from carbon taxation. Biofuels which are produced from biomass qualify for relief from the carbon component of MOT under section 100(5) of Finance Act 1999 (as amended). This means that biofuels, such as HVO, bio-ethanol and Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME), are only subject to the non-carbon component of MOT. In the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Jack Chambers: ...Office of Public Works. The Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme was introduced by the Government in 2017 to address the very serious flooding of those homes that flooded in the Winter of 2015/16, including those homes flooded by turloughs. This is a national scheme of humanitarian assistance, targeting aid at those worst affected properties, for which there are no alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (29 Apr 2025)

Peter Burke: ...as such, is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Enterprise Development Agencies. In this regard, regional development is a strategic imperative for IDA Ireland with the IDA targeting 550 of a total target of 1,000 investments, to regional locations under its new strategy, "Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation 2025-29". In attracting...